Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for blacks was 13.2 percent, Hispanics was 10 percent and 23.5 percent of the teenagers in this country were unemployed last month. Conversely, the jobless rate for Asians was 6.4 percent and whites was 6.8 percent.

Analysts at the U.S. Department of Labor suggested Hurricane Sandy, which wreaked havoc along the Northeast corridor, did not substantially impact the employment and unemployment estimates.

For 2012, based on government data, it looks like the country added an average of 151,000 jobs every month. In 2011, the number was 153,000 jobs.

So what sectors of the economy is hiring?

Data show employment in the health care field continues to improve, creating 20,000+ of the 146,000 jobs last month. That sector has added an average of 26,000 jobs every month this year — meaning health care alone accounts for more than 17 percent of the job growth in this country.

Other sectors that did well last month include wholesale trade - up 13,000 jobs. Leisure and hospitality was up 23,000 jobs, and information and communications-related employment went up by 12,000 jobs in November.

What sectors are declining?

Construction employment continues to show weakness, with the sector losing 20,000 more jobs last month with building construction employment taking the biggest hit.

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) has to create a lot of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. to create a positive environment for the sector, as food manufacturing and the chemicals sector lost jobs, but motor vehicles and wood products offset some of those numbers.

The Labor Department also reports that the average workweek for employees in the private sector remained steady at 34.4 hours, but average hourly earnings rose to $23.63, indicating the hourly rate has gone up by 1.7 percent in 2012.

Overall, it's a strong report that is being reflected in trading on Wall Street so far today despite some recent bad news relating to layoffs by such as Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Hostess Brands Inc. Of course, those job losses will show up in the numbers going forward.

Not everyone was happy with the jobs report.

Raleigh's Captive-Aire Systems CEO Bob Luddy who is a member of the Dallas-based Job Creators Alliance (JCA), a nonprofit group that states it wants to preserve and protect the free enterprise system, says the 146K increase is far short of what is needed to support a real and sustained recover. "Our recovery is still far too weak to withstand the crushing tax increases that small businesses and working families are facing at the end of this year," Luddy said in a statement released by the JCA.

And this little note will interest people who were looking and wondering about the unemployment and payroll numbers in September and October before the presidential elections.

Private employment numbers were revised down for the months of September and October. For September, the number was revised down from 148,000 jobs to 132,000 jobs. And for October, the numbers were revised down from 171,000 to 138,000 jobs.